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"Mike Harris" wrote:
"OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message
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Jangchub wrote:
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:06:19 -0500, OmManiPadmeOmelet
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To me, all "bugs" are arthropods...
And you would be wrong.
Arthropoda is a Phyllum.
It means "jointed legs".
Which bugs are NOT arthropods?
Well... annelids, as I mentioned - most common as earthworms. Mollusca -
snails and slugs. The imported "land planarian" discussed here a while back
is a platyhelminthe - a flatworm. Some might consider newts to be creepy
crawly slimy and "buglike" - chordata. Nematodes have a phylum of their
own - nematoda. Velvet worms are onchyophorae and I've seen them in Mexico
but I don't think Austin is tropical enough for them.
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Mike Harris
Austin TX
Annelids, mollusks and Helminthes are not in the Phylum Arthropoda...
They are in a different classification.
Mollusca is a separate phylum:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylum_mollusca
So is Phylum Annelida:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annelida
And Phylum Platyhelmenthes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylum_platyhelminthes
And Phylum Nematoda:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylum_nematoda
And Phylum Chordata is most certainly NO relation to Arthropods!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylum_chordata
I'd strongly suggest you take a zoology course.....
;-)
Phyllum Arthropoda are all bugs.
Jointed legged insects and their relatives. Crustaceans etc.
Phyllum is only one step below Kingdom.
It's a pretty broad class of critters and not one of the creatures you
mentioned. Velvet worms are also not arthropods. They are in their own
Phylum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylum_arthropoda
Scorpions are most certainly an Arthropod!!!
They are related to spiders in Class Arachnida.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid
Which are in the phylum Arthropoda (arthropods)
I've no idea why you are trying to call those other creatures "bugs".
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